This book presents 28 illustrated biographies of the greatest songwriters, lyricists, and writing teams of Broadway musicals, from Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, and Cole Porter to Comden and Green, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Herbert Keyser delves beneath the public personas to uncover the secrets of their success as well as the personal foibles that sometimes led to their downfall.